Night Elie Wiesel

Moishe the Beadle

A poor and lonely religious man. He tells terrifying takes about the condition of the Jews in concentration camps, which Elie and the villagers find hard to believe.

Why did Moishe disappear for a few months?

All the foreign Jews were being deported.

why did Moishe pray

to the god within him to have the strength to ask him the real questions

Why was Moishe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?

Moshe became his cabbalist, master, or instructor in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith.

What did Moishe the Beadle tell the people on his return from being deported?

The foreign Jews were shot and dumped into large mass graves.

Eliezer Wiesel

narrator of night

What did Eliezer do when he prayed

Cried

What did Eliezer want to study

Kabbalah

What were the Sighet Jew's first impression of the German soldiers?

Distant but polite

What happened on the 7th day of Passover 1944?

Germans arrested leader of the Jewish community

"The race toward death gd begun"

Mrs. Schachter

A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer.

She is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance.

She proves to be a prophetess, however, as the trains soon arrive at the crematoria of Auschwitz.

Aushwitz

largest concentration camp; located in poland; work camp, administrative center, an extermination camp

What did the German officer tell the people when they arrived in Czechoslovakia?

They were now under control of the German army and had to hand over all gold, silver, or watches

What happened is someone was caught with gold silver or watches?

It was punishable by death

What did the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window?

They saw flames gushing out of a tall chimney in to the sky.

What did the people first think of Auschwitz?

The conditions were good because families weren't separated

Hilda Wiesel

Elie's oldest sister

Bea Wiesel

Elie's middle sister

Tzipora Wiesel

Elie's younger sister

Who did Elie Wiesel get to help train him in the cabbala?

Moishe the Beadle

Who found the teacher for Elie?

himself

What news does Elie's father return with after his late-night meeting of the council?

They are going to be deported, destination unknown

Metaphor

A comparison without using like or as

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Personification

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

Foreshadowing

A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.

How many people ride on each train car?

80

What does madame Schachter imagine she sees during the train ride?

fire

What is the setting at the beginning of Chapter One?

Sighed, Hungary

Who is the first character introduced in night?

Moishe the beadle

First inmate in Birkenau

Weary and warm

Tells Elie to say he's older (18) and his father to say he's younger (40)

This allows them to escape the crematoria

2nd inmate in Birkenau

Angry

Tells them that they will burn in the chimneys

What do the young men want to do when the learn about the chimneys?

Revolt

The world to know of Auschwitz while they could still escape

What did they old men do when their sons wanted to revolt?

Beg them not to be foolish

"We mustn't give up hope..."

Dr. Mengele

Nazi doctor who makes decisions on the selection.

"Angel of death"

The kapos

Nazi concentration camp prisoners who were given special privileges in return for supervising other prisoners on work crews; often common criminals who were notorious for their brutality toward fellow inmates

Béla Katz

Choose because of his strength to be a kommando. Forced to throw his own fathers body into the fire

Kommando

Basic work unit in a concentration camp

Yehiel

the brother of the rabbi from Sighet

Weeping- "we are on the threshold of death"

Meir Katz and Stern

Given clothes that looked ridiculous and didn't fit

Talk SS officer in Auschwitz

Tells them they can choose between working or being burned

1st Blockälteste

Young pole

Was removed and judged to humane

Gave them advice and treated them like people. Told them not to give up hope

Veteran inmates

Treated them w/o brutality

Stein

Eliezer's relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy.

What does stein learn when the transports from Antwerp arrive?

The real news about his family

Who was steins family

Reizel and two young boys

New Blockälteste

Ferocious

New Blockälteste's aides

Veritable monsters

Akiba Drumer

A singer with a deep voice who has strong faith in God; he dies in the concentration camp after losing hope in God; no one prays Kaddish for him.

Hersh Genud

Spoke of the end of the world and the coming of the Messiah.

When was the last time Elie saw his mother and sister Tzipora?

When men and women were separated in Birkenua

When did the Sighet people leave behind their illusions?

When they left the cart and had to leave all their belongings behind

Kaddish

Jewish prayer for the dead

What will Elie never forget on the first night?

Flames that consumed his faith, smoke, children's whose bodies burned, the silence that deprived him the desire to live and the moments that murdered his god and turned his dream to ashes.

First impression of Auschwitz?

Better then Birkenau

Cement buildings instead of wooden barracks and little gardens

Buna

The largest Auschwitz sub-camp where Wiesel spends much time

First impression of Buna

It looked like it had been through an epidemic

Empty and dead

What did the veterans say about buna

It was a good camp but don't be assigned to the construction Kommando

Tent leader

Liked children

(There was children trafficking)

Brought them food

What did the Tent leaders aid want Elies shoes in exchange for?

Elie to get into a good Kommando

Why didn't Ellie give away his shoes?

They were all he had left

What did the first doctor ask?

Are you in good health?

What did the dentist look for?

Gold teeth

What did Ellie have that the dentist wanted?

A gold crown

To what Kommando was Elie and his father first assigned?

Warehouse of electrical materials

Juliek

A polish musician who plays the violin in Buna. He gives his final performance playing Beethoven when the prisoners arrive at Gleiwitz and dies the next day.

Louis

A native from Holland; a well known violinist.

Why did Louis complain?

Jews weren't allowed to play German music. So he couldn't play Beethoven

Franek

Eliezer's foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezer's gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon.

Idek

A violent Kapo in the Buna warehouse. He lashes Elie cruelly during one of his violent fits, because Elie has seen him lying on a mattress with a woman.

Yossi and Tibi

Czech brothers whose parents are killed. They work in the electrical warehouse with Elie and become his friends. They would hum Hasidic melodies

Blockälteste of the music block

A German Jew

Devoted time defending his block

What did Elie tell the dentist to avoid his crown being taken?

He didn't feel well and had a fever

Young French woman

Passed as Aryan but was secretly Jewish

Pretended to not speak German in order to avoid suspicion

Avoided concentration camps

Franek wanted Elie's gold crown. What did he do to convince him to give it up?

Franek taunted his father until Elie could no longer watch it happen

How did the dentist from Warsaw pull out Elies Crown

With a rusty spoon

What did Elie see Idek doing?

Having sex with a polish girl

What did Idek beat Elie's dad with?

iron bar

What did Idek do to Eli when Eli caught him with a girl?

Whipped him on a crate 25 times

What happened when the sirens went off?

The camp was being raided by American planes

A man crawled to steal soup. He screamed and was shot

What did then kapos force everyone to do after the executions?

Look the dead in the face

Pipel

Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.

What happened when the pipel was hanged?

He was to light and didn't die for over half an hour

What happens to the Jews as they ride in the cattle cars?

They begin to lose their sense of decency.

How do the Nazis prevent the Jews from escaping the rail cars?

They nail the doors shut

How do the other prisoners react to Madame Schachter's screams?

They bind and gag her

What do the locals tell the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz?

Their families will be kept together and they won't suffer.

What do the prisoners see when they arrive at the camp?

The chimneys of enormous furnaces

What do Eliezer's parents do for a living?

They are shopkeepers

What does Eliezer study against his father's wishes?

Cabbala

How do the townspeople react to Moshe's story about the Gestapo?

they think he's crazy

How soon do the Nazis enter the country after the Hungarian government falls?

the next day

Who offers to hide Eliezer's family?

Martha, their servant

What does the prisoner tell Eliezer and his father to lie about when they arrive?

Their ages

What do the older Jews say they should do when they discover what awaits them?

Rely on faith

Who oversees the selection process at Auschwitz?

Josef Mengele

What is happening in the pit that Eliezer sees after entering Birkenau?

Babies are being burned

What happens when Eliezer's father asks to go to the bathroom?

The head prisoner beats him

What job are Eliezer and his father assigned to do?

Count electrical fittings

Why is Eliezer told to go to the dentist?

To have his gold crown removed